A major complaint about Google's Chrome web browser has been that so far, it is still not available on anything other than Windows. Google promised to deliver Chrome to Mac OS X and Linux as well, but as it turns out, this is a little harder than they anticipated, Ben Goodger, Google's Chrome interface lead, has explained in an email. It has also been revealed what toolkit the Linux version of Chrome will use: Gtk+.

Google simply acknowledges that there are strengths and weaknesses in each platform, and that to use the "lowest common denominator" would be to discard some potentially useful features of other platforms. Does QT4 support Core Data or the upcoming Grand Central for example?

Really -- the Linux brigade should be grateful that Google are even bothering to do more than a simple Wine-port.

Nuff said. They may have bindings for some of the host-system's technologies, but they haven't quite figured out the bindings for its UI-guidelines. I know that such things don't matter to the Linux fandom, but the comfort factor is an important thing to mainstream users.

Really -- the Linux brigade should be grateful that Google are even bothering to do more than a simple Wine-port.

Really you Apple obsessives get me down. You don't want a parallel release of Chrome for all major platforms you want one that not only uses some of the special features of OS X but also upcoming features that are not yet even implemented.

wtf should I care we can both use Crossover Chromium until the native ports come out.